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Annual report highlights investments in people, infrastructure and standards to meet the growing demands on open source software  Wilmington, DE  – September 1, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (The ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today released its annual…

In building an NTP time demo on old Macs for VCF Midwest, I came across RFC 867 and RFC 868, for the 'Daytime' and 'Time' Protocols, respectively. My first exposure to any form of network time was when I upgraded from a used PowerBook 180c to my first 'new' computer, a Power Mac G3, in 2000. With…

I'm traveling to Chicago for VCF Midwest next month. I'll be demoing NTP time history on vintage Macs, with my own GPS-derived NTP service hosted on an Xserve G5, synced via NTP or a strange AppleTalk timing extension from the 1990s. So I built a little 'portable homelab' (pictured above) that…

Introducing Apache Iggy™, a persistent message streaming platform written in Rust, and Apache Sourcelume, open source instrumentation for AI training-data provenance Wilmington, DE –  August 27, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on,…

For a mobile 'mini homelab' project I'm working on, I wanted to use 5G Internet as a primary 'on-to-go' connection, but still have the ability to plug in another Internet connection when I put the mobile rack I'm building in a fixed location. I'll have more on that project soon, but I figured…

This project, its code and its substance, have been brought to you by a small but dedicated herd of passionate and possibly stubborn human beings often referred to as “hackers.” This is how it all started more than 20 years ago and it hasn’t changed! I mean, why hack an init system, with a…

The BOE TV070WXM-TV0 LCD used in the original Steam Deck can be had for around $30. It's a serviceable 7" touchscreen with 400 nits of brightness and a resolution of 1280x800 (for a sharp 216 ppi). The specs are a lot nicer than the Pi 7" Touch Display, which costs twice as much, with giant…

We are happy to announce that Guixotic has been awarded a grant by NLnet as part of the NGI TALER Fund! This grant will fund our work to bring the main components and extensions of GNU Taler, a privacy-friendly payment system, to GNU Guix.

In the before-times, when Raspberry Pi CM5s were (relatively) affordable, I built a number of Pi clusters (example), and one of the most annoying parts of the build was flashing Raspberry Pi OS to all the Pis. One, two, or even three Pis isn't a big deal, but once you hit 4+, the process of…

What Geode 2.0 taught us—and what comes next By Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0https://JinwooHwang.com This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks through how it was modernized. Part III looks…

Shortly after Apple launched the budget MacBook Neo, Dell announced their response, a new low-end XPS 13. Matching the Neo's current pricing, it starts at $699, or $599 with an educational discount. That discount is currently set to expire on November 2, and with the current component pricing…

Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM. I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform—the same machine on which I've booted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houdini's native arm64 support. Install…

I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec. But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple years ago, and wanted to upgrade my…

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So, we are not finished with locally running LLMs yet.

AKA "Spectrum has gone down two weeks in a row and I'm sick of it". I've been borrowing a portable 5G gateway from my Dad for a few weeks, for testing... and two weeks in a row, I've used it as a backup Internet option, since my Spectrum Business cable Internet has gone down. And yes, I'd get…

Hello! I’m on a funny journey right now where I’m trying to learn how to make websites in a sort of 2010 style, where I have an SQL database and render some HTML on the backend. It’s kind of an interesting journey because it doesn’t necessarily feel “easy” to me to make websites in this way: I never…

I consider myself a pretty chill and calm person, I can endure and tolerate quite a lot, but I become furious when a program spits in my face with what I didn't ask for, take me for a dumbass or exploit legacy vulnurabilities of my brain. Annoying notification, algorithmic feeds and…

Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally…

MPI software stacks are complex beasts that play a key role in application performance. Guix packages Open MPI for a wide range high-speed interconnects—InfiniBand, Omni-Path, Slingshot, ROCE, you name it—with the goal of achieving peak performance for each one of them.

Several security issues (CVE IDs pending) have been identified in guix substitute , a helper utility invoked by guix-daemon , which enable a variety of harmful activities including remote privilege escalation to the build daemon user , remote store corruption , and potentially local…

Introducing GeoLibre 1.0, a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform that runs in your browser, as a desktop app, on your phone, and inside Jupyter notebooks.

A tutorial on accessing, streaming, downloading, and analyzing Planet Tanager 426-band hyperspectral imagery in QGIS using the HyperCoast plugin, including footprint browsing, HDF5 downloads, custom band composites, and spectral signature inspection.

A tutorial on accessing, visualizing, and analyzing NASA Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) imagery in QGIS using the NASA Earthdata, GEE Data Catalogs, and OpenGeoAgent plugins, including RGB composites, NDVI, monthly time series, pixel extraction, and voice-driven workflows.

Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I was really happy to choose Tailwind. It helped me make a lot of tiny sites! I spent the last week or…